[Map of] Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean by Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6. Copied by Samuel Lewis from the Original Drawing of Wm Clark, 1814/1979

Containers:
Folder 14
Scope and content:

Original map is the frontispiece of the "Biddle Edition" of History of the Expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains - Nicholas Biddle, Paul Allen preparers

Original Printing: Bradley & Inskeep, Philadelphia - publisher Samuel Lewis - cartographer Samuel Harrison - engraver

37.5 cm x 79 cm

Second printing. Limited to 160 numbered copies. Engraved map, printed on French all rag BFK Rives paper. The second printing, a limited restrike edition, of the famed map that illustrated the first edition of the Lewis and Clark's History of the Expedition, printed by the American Philosophical Society from the original copper printing plate in 1979, the first and only supplemental printing ever done.

Purchased from Henry Stevens,& Son & Stiles, London UK, April 17, 1980

Mss.Acc. 1980.08

Subject/Index Terms: United States--Maps, United States--History--Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806--Maps.

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